021T Capital

VC firm backing intelligence era startups with $1T+ potential. By @devontriplett21 & @alexwg

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@axi_master @aadityasubedi_ @architectlabs Let’s go!!!

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Architect Labs 🚀

[Ebrahim H @axi_master]

Today, @aadityasubedi_ and I are excited to introduce @architectlabs.

We are building the AI system to design and provably verify chips for the world's most demanding workloads.
AI scaling is fundamentally changing the economics of hardware infrastructure. As models scale, become more capable, and more widely deployed, the bottleneck is shifting from software and models alone to the physical infrastructure that runs it: specialized compute, memory, networking, interconnects, and full-stack system design.

General-purpose hardware is no longer enough, and the world is racing to spin up new chip programs. This is not just true across datacenter training and inference, but everywhere AI enters the physical world: robotics, autonomous systems, spatial computing, defense, personal devices, industrial automation, and scientific instruments.

But designing a chip today remains one of the most gated efforts in modern technology.

A modern chip program takes years, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and depends on a shrinking pool of expertise concentrated inside a small number of companies.

Architect Labs is a foundational lab building an AI system that designs and provably verifies chips end-to-end. We partner with semiconductor and workload companies, AI labs, and nations to turn demanding workloads into purpose-built chips, on demand at scale. We aim to drastically accelerate chip design, so that the models, software and chip designs can co-evolve together, accelerating the industry’s path to superintelligence.

Two decades ago, the fabless revolution made it possible to build a chip company without owning a fab. TSMC made world-class manufacturing available to anyone with a design. We aim to do the same for chip design itself: enable any organization with a workload, or specification, to get a purpose-built chip design that unlocks scale and distribution of intelligence impossible with current hardware paradigms.

Our founding team collectively has taped out 80+ production chips, led $10B datacenter product lines, been core contributors to Meta’s AI silicon, architected and designed one of the first neuromorphic chips out of Intel, led research teams at Anthropic, xAI, and Google DeepMind, and contributed to fundamental AI research across nearly every frontier lab.

We have already partnered with semiconductor companies to accelerate their chip programs, and some of our AI-generated chip designs are going to tape out on leading-edge foundry nodes later this year.

We’ve also raised a $24M seed round led by @stevejang from @KindredVentures , with participation from @TQVentures , @RaceCapital , @scaletogether , @ora, and Link Ventures.

We are grateful for the support of our angels and advisors, including @snsf , @lukaszkaiser , @AravSrinivas , Kunle Olukotun, @tlbtlbtlb, @alexwg, Siddharth Nath, Thierry Tambe, @arashf , @ekaurghar, @CHHubbell, Selene Casabal, @semiDL , and engineering leaders from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Intel and more.

The next great scaling law may not come from the models alone. It will come from making the physical substrate of intelligence programmable. We exist to bring this future to life.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

“A company that assumes it will be acquired thinks like a feature. A company that assumes it will go public thanks like an institution. The ticker on the wall changes which one you’re building,” said Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, an investor and entrepreneur who advises and helped form form Ornn with backing from 021T Capital.

Wissner-Gross argues that companies expecting to become public institutions make different decisions than companies optimized primarily for acquisition or short-term liquidity events.

“Sarbanes-Oxley raised the cost of being public,” he said. “The JOBS Act removed the regulatory pressure to go public. Private mega-rounds removed the financial need. Every incentive in the system now points away from public markets, and that is exactly why a counter-signal matters.”

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$ORNN

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/gSCmZzw4eh

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Happy to be leading the charge on solving the great unbanked AI agent crisis, thanks @alexwg for the kind words!

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@HenryForAll 👀👀👀

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Henry Intelligent Machines PBC 🚀🚀

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/3MgFfGhln9

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Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross (@alexwg) was interviewed about our portfolio company Professional Robotic League PBC (@_ProRL), the first American professional robot race, and the future of robotics. Watch below 🤖

https://t.co/k5DtV7E97N

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@alexwg @_ProRL @_ProRL 📈🦾🎉

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

Thanks again to everyone who participated in today's historic @_ProRL robotics event in Boston, an American first!

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@alexwg History made 🦾

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

Short Film: "ProRL Spring Training"

Reminder to come visit the ProRL Combine in Boston today: https://t.co/RdQWEyNnmk

Learn more about ProRL:
https://t.co/xQwZ1geQ2D

Why ProRL?
https://t.co/pl1RvvVsmL

[Ornn @OrnnExchange]

FINANCIALIZING THE COMPUTE MARKET

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[Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com @tonjkb]

.@alexwg talks about the rise of the one-person unicorn business and backing @AlexFinn's Henry Intelligent Machines

I should note, friend of the pod, Alex Finn, who appeared previously, also has a new company named Henry Intelligent Machines."

"Supported by you."

"Supported by me, indirectly by you. Supported by me that is trying to make this broadly available to the masses to enable everyone not just Matthew Gallagher with his GLP One startup to enable everyone to create one AI conglomerates that achieve universal high income"

Source - @PeterDiamandis

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@tonjkb @alexwg @AlexFinn 👀👀

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

Reminder that ProRL, the first American professional robotics sports league, is hosting a public competition in Boston on April 19. Register at https://t.co/RdQWEyNnmk. Here is a preview of one of the contestants from yesterday's AI Summit 2026 at MIT:

[ProRL @_ProRL]

North America’s FIRST humanoid robot race is happening! 🤖🏁 Live racing, robotics demos & activities for all ages. RSVP now → link in bio!

#ProRL #ProRLCombone #Robotics #Humanoid

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@timecode1260 @AlexFinn @alexwg @devontriplett21 👀👀👀👀

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@ChronoScopeFilm 👀👀

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Changing the world. Introducing Henry Intelligent Machines, PBC.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Biggest announcement of my life:

I have raised pre-seed funding from 021T, @alexwg , and @devontriplett21 to build an AI agent that will change the world

The biggest issue with AI is it is creating incredible value but for only a small group of people

Most people hate AI and don't use it

I have built Henry Intelligent Machines (HIM) to solve this

HIM is a personal swarm of AI agents autonomously creating economic value for you 24/7

Right now as we speak HIM is collecting data across thousands of websites autonomously 24/7/365

They're hunting for challenges to solve at all times

When you use Henry, he will deeply research you and get to know you. Then based on the thousands of opportunities it has in its database, find the value generating opportunities that most closely match your interests, skills, assets, and expertise

Henry and its swarm will then proceed to build those micro-businesses out for you

You will have complete control over the swarm. Reviewing and approving all work. Editing where you find appropriate.

You give Henry a budget, then it hunts and autonomously creates value

Say you have an expertise in vibe coding tools and Henry discovers there's no vibe coding guides on Gumroad. It will take your expertise, build drafts for a guide, run it by you, post with your approval, then use your budget to get customers

Say you're into AI and speak Portuguese

Henry will go through the Portuguese AI education market, see there are no educational products in that language, then create a full AI educational business in Portuguese

Most people hate AI. This is because they get 0 value from it, see their friends getting laid off, and become scared

HIM is the antidote to this. HIM allows ANYONE to get value from AI.

HIM will allow anyone to get access to the trillions of dollars of value that are up for grabs in the new AI world.

To ensure Henry creates value and not slop, this will be an extremely slow rollout

We will be letting people into HIM 1 by 1. Working with them hands on to ensure Henry only builds real value for them, then expanding from there.

If you'd like to be one of the early users of Henry, feel free to sign up at the link below.

Forward.